OUT NOW!
I Am Winter (short film) – Multi-award-winning short film exploring narcissistic abuse in a lesbian relationship. Official selections include FFilm Cymru Wales Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Festival, Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions and Redmoon Film Festival. Available on LesFlicks VOD; used as a promotional film by Broxtowe Women’s Project.
The Suddenness of Quiet (short film) – Official selections include Festival del Cinema di Cefalù, Clapperboard Golden Festival, Madeira Curtas Short Film Contest, Think Shorts, and Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions.
The Art of Almost (play) – Performed at Heller Theatre.
How She Kills (play) – Performed at Pleasance Theatre (London) and Mercury Theatre (Colchester); developed by Queer Colors Theatre.
French Beans & Inner Peace (comedy monologue/audio) – Selected for Eclectic Theatre’s Half Hour Audio Hour and BBC Upload Festival.
Cecily and the Dragon (children’s audio drama) – Performed by Nick Knowles for NHS workers’ children at the MPFT Big Shout Out Festival.
A Terrible Thing Has Happened (audio short story) – Winner, Living History Short Story Award. Performed by Samantha Giles; broadcast via BBC Upload Festival, BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Sussex.
Merivale (live audio performance) – Performed on Yorick Radio.
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION
• A Girl Called Dusty – Winner, Village Playwrights Competition.
• Confessions: The Hours – Winner, Full Stack KDC Theatre Playwriting Competition; Winner, Best Monologue (Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York).
• A Terrible Thing Has Happened – Winner, Living History Short Story Award.
• Coal to Burn the World – Winner, Creative Writing Ink Competition.
• Memories of a Mermaid – Second Place, Baltimore Science Fiction Society.Shortlists / Longlists / Finalist
• Everland (YA novel) – Selected, Penguin Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme (2021).
• The Roses and the Weeds – Shortlisted, Crossing the Tees; Honourable Mention, Wordrunner eChapbooks.
• A Terrible Thing Has Happened – Shortlisted, The Bedford Prize.• Merivale – Longlisted, New Welsh Review Writing Contest.
• War’s Orphan and the Sound of Silence – Pushcart Prize nominee.
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BOOKS
• Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre (poetry collection) – Vine Leaves Press, 2023.
• Things She Thought While Falling (short story collection) – Elsker Publishing House, 2024.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, The Rialto, Rattle, Stand, Acumen, Sinister Wisdom, Smokelong Quarterly, Litro, Flash Fiction Magazine, New Welsh Review.
Full publication list available on request.
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NON-FICTION
• “I Know Who Killed Jenny Schecter” – Nonchalant Magazine.
• “I Was in an Abusive Lesbian Relationship” – The Doe (published anonymously).
ELINORA WESTFALL
Writer for Stage, Screen, Radio & FictionMember: WGGB | SCBWI | Dramatists Guild of AmericaEmail: elinorawestfall@gmail.com | Based in East of England, UK
Elinora Westfall is an award-winning writer for stage, screen, radio and fiction based in the East of England. Her work has been staged and screened in London and New York, with fiction selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow Programme and archived by the British Library. Her writing explores queer lives, intimacy and power, with a particular focus on the interior worlds of women. She is currently developing the original television drama, STARS.
SELECTED SCREEN / STAGE / AUDIO CREDITS
A Girl Called Dusty (play) – Winner, Village Playwrights Competition. Produced by Thalia Theatre Company; staged at Rogue Theatre Festival and The Secret Theatre Festival, New York.
Confessions: The Hours (short film; stage adaptation) – Winner, Full Stack KDC Theatre Playwriting Competition; Winner, Best Monologue (Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York). Performed at Thornhill Theatre (London) and Fifth Avenue Theatre (NY); featured at Broadway Winterfest (2021). Official selections include Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, QueerBee Festival and others.